Comparison

Balance Guide Lite vs Budgeted

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Balance Guide Lite

Easily manage your finances and plan your budget. This app helps you track your account balance, upcoming bills, and spending habits. It offers forecasting for future finances and allows for quick correction of your balance without needing to enter every transaction.

Highlights
  • Dark mode
  • Recurring transaction setup
  • Financial forecasting
  • Pie charts and graphs
  • Customizable categories
  • PIN security
Features
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HOW MUCH MONEY WILL YOU SAVE ? A guide to your account balance, simple to use and not aimed at accountants. Makes it easy to plan a budget and see the status of your account with upcoming bills and see where your money is going. With Balance Guide you can quickly setup your recurring bills and deposits and produce a forecast of your finances for the months ahead. Later, you don't have to worry about entering all your transactions from your bank statement with the added bonus that you can easily correct your balance at any time. FEATURES - Dark mode - NEW - Multiple Accounts, transfer between account (ONLY AVAILABLE ONCE UPGRADED) - Setup recurring transactions for forecasting - Forecast calendar (ONLY AVAILABLE ONCE UPGRADED) - Now includes optimisation for iPhone X, XR and XS Max. - Clear / light colour scheme - All accounts summary information (not available for iPhone 4s / ONLY AVAILABLE ONCE UPGRADED) - Pie charts / graphs to show your financial status - Backup / Restore with Dropbox (ONLY AVAILABLE ONCE UPGRADED) - Simple customisable of categories to group your transactions e.g. "Utility Bills" - Tutorial / walk through showing you how to get started - Help pages, if you need to read about functionality in more depth - Correct balance at any time, so you don't need to enter all your transactions - PIN security, to protect your information from prying eyes REVIEWS This App is so good! ***** Really easy to use, looked at loads of others, but this has all you need. Your income v outgoings and lets you know where you stand on a monthly basis! I will and do recommend! Great App. Excellent tool ! ***** I have been looking for a handy app to organise my finances for ages. This is simple to use & very helpful when planning ahead. Would highly recommend Checkout our Demo video - http://youtu.be/3NrxZE_yFag SUPPORT Balance Guide uses the default currency set on your device, so there’s no complicated setup / installation. If you need help there are several methods available. Firstly, the tutorial, which is a kind of walkthrough. There’s also helps pages, providing in depth information. How to ask questions and contact us - - Use the contact form via my website, I'm happy to help. - Follow the app on twitter http://twitter.com/BalanceGuideApp - Like the app on facebook https://www.facebook.com/balanceguideapp NOTE: I'm unable to respond to bug reports left in reviews. Each new version wipes out all old reviews so please take the time to leave a review for the new version. As it’s not possible to reply to reviews on the app store, please use the new feedback features to tell us what you think. You can also join our beta programme and gain access to new features early.

About

Budgeted

This app automatically creates your budget based on your savings goals and income. It provides daily and weekly spending plans, tracks your adherence, and predicts your financial future. Manage income, bills, and special purchases with this intuitive budgeting tool.

Highlights
  • Automatic budget creation
  • Daily and weekly spending plans
  • Financial future prediction
  • Income and bill management
  • Personalized WishList integration
  • Budget adherence tracking
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Creates your budget automatically and shows you your financial future before it happens! 5 STARS "This app is the holy grail!" - Felmont 5 STARS "Wonderfully simple" - olibh76 5 STARS "At last an app to help manage my budget that I can actually understand!" - Evadstoor Ever wondered why budgeting apps seem to make you do all the work? Wouldn't it be more useful if an app could create your budget for you? That's where Budgeted comes in. All Budgeted needs is a period of time to budget for, and the amount you would like to have saved at the end of that period. Budgeted will then create daily and weekly spending plans for you, completely automatically, and tracks your adherence to your budget over time. Simply put, Budgeted handles your finances, while you get on with your life. Once your budget has been created for you, the Budget Health feature analyses your past spending to give you an accurate prediction of how likely you are to be able to keep to your budget. Budget Health gives you the kind of certainty over your financial future never before seen in a budgeting app, and allows you to make smart adjustments to you spending to maximise your budgeting success. As well as all of this, Budgeted also helps you manage your income and bills. This ensures that your budget is created with all of your income and outgoings taken in to account, and helps you to plan ahead with clarity. Budgeted also includes your own personal WishList, to which you can add any special purchases you are planning during your budget period. Budgeted will then adjust your daily and weekly budget to take account of these items, so there's no need to worry about a nasty shock to your finances after buying that special treat. Budgeted has it all taken care of. So what are you waiting for? Download Budgeted today to take back control of your finances, and see just how simple budgeting can be.

Screenshots

Balance Guide Lite4 screens
Budgeted4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Balance Guide Lite at Free against Budgeted's $2.99. Balance Guide Lite also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 80%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). Budgeted's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Balance Guide Lite is free to download; Budgeted costs $2.99 up front. Balance Guide Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Budgeted asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Balance Guide Lite ships an update every 5 months, Budgeted every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Balance Guide Lite versus Budgeted: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBalance Guide LiteBudgeted
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.2 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.2% of reviews — better80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMindwarp Consultancy LtdStephen Anthony

Customer experience

Balance Guide Lite

All ratings12 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral25.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive88.2%
Neutral11.8%
Negative0.0%

Budgeted

Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Balance Guide Lite

One-time1
  • No Ads, Multiple Accounts + Dropbox backup$2.99
None

Budgeted

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Balance Guide Lite free?
Balance Guide Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Budgeted free?
Budgeted costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Balance Guide Lite or Budgeted have ads?
Neither Balance Guide Lite nor Budgeted shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Balance Guide Lite or Budgeted?
Balance Guide Lite ships an update every 5 months, and Budgeted every 6 weeks. Most recently, Balance Guide Lite was updated on September 22, 2026 and Budgeted on September 26, 2026.

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